Scholz decided to write a song "about everybody who dreams about that," even though "that's not what happened with Boston." Todd Maternowski claims that the band "set a precedent when they wrote the song "Rock and Roll Band," about the gritty life of an up-and-coming musician, despite never actually having experienced anything of the sort and getting a major record contract before their first live gig." Critical reception īilly Baker of the Boston Globe called "Rock and Roll Band" "one of the biggest rock anthems of the 1970s." Scott Tady of Beaver County Times described "Rock and Roll Band," " Smokin'" and Boston's first four singles as having "helped set the foundation for classic-rock radio." Boston Globe's Sarah Rodman credited "Rock and Roll Band" as one of the songs that helped drive sales of Boston to over 17 million copies. According to Scholz, the song was inspired by Masdea telling him of playing in bands in Hyannis, Massachusetts and dreaming of being discovered. Boston's official website acknowledges that the song is "a charming bit of group self-mythology." Scholz himself admits that the song is "pure fantasy" since the band never played live or toured at the time the song was written. However, the song's lyrics do exaggerate the band's story, as they spent years of work and rejection to get their recording contract, rather than being suddenly discovered by a record executive who happened to catch a show. Well we were just another band out of Boston On the road to try to make ends meet Playin' all the bars, sleepin' in our cars And we practiced right on out in the street. According to Allmusic critic Vik Iyengar, it" is about the band's "rise from a bar band." In The Rough Guide to Rock, Charles Bottomley calls the song Boston's "self-description." Lyrics supporting this statement include: ""Rock and Roll Band" is one of several Boston songs with the theme of making music and how music makes them feel. Shortly after, Ahern and McKenzie signed on as the band's managers. "Rock & Roll Band" is the song that Paul Ahern played for Charlie McKenzie to interest him in the yet unnamed band that was to become Boston. Boston consistently opened with "Rock and Roll Band" while playing at live concerts. Scholz plays clavinet and all the guitar parts, including bass guitar, and Brad Delp sings vocals. The drum parts of this and other early Boston songs were developed by Jim Masdea, but this is the only song on the Boston album on which Masdea plays drums. However, Scholz had begun writing the song years earlier, in the early 1970s.
The "Rock and Roll Band" demo was finished in 1974, along with three of the six. It is one of many songs Scholz worked on in his basement in 19 before Boston got its record contract, five of which eventually appeared on the Boston album. "Rock & Roll Band" is a song by American rock band Boston written by main songwriter and guitarist Tom Scholz and helped out by lead vocalist Brad Delp the song appears on the band's 1976 self-titled debut. For the concert film, see Rock 'n' Roll Band.
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